‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ International Trailer: Let the Chase Begin

The second trailer for George Miller’s long-awaited sequel Mad Max: Fury Road was easily one of the best trailers released in 2015. When a movie is in development for thirty years there’s no guarantee that the end result will retain the spirit of its predecessors, but Mad Max: Fury Road looks fast-paced, violent, brutal, beautiful, operatic and, well… completely mad.

Tom Hardy takes over from Mel Gibson as eponymous protagonist Max Rockatansky, a former officer of the law who was left traumatized after the loss of his family and now struggles to survive in a barren future landscape, where only the toughest survive and are willing to kill one another for necessities like oil and water. Charlize Theron plays Imperator Furiosa, a one-armed, tough-skinned leader trying to make it across a desert and back to her childhood home.

Max Max: Fury Road also sees Hugh Keays-Byrne, who played Toecutter in the original Mad Max film, return as new villain Immortan Joe, the leader of a group of unhinged bandits who are seen capturing Max and relentlessly pursuing Furiosa in the trailers.

With Mad Max: Fury Road set to hit theater screens this summer, a new international trailer has been released. It’s mostly just a shorter, reworked version of the second trailer but there are a couple of new shots in there and – let’s face it – those scenes of vehicles exploding in a violent sandstorm will never get old.

While adaptations of young adult novels like The Hunger Games have made post-apocalyptic sci-fi popular in mainstream cinema, there’s nothing else that looks quite like Mad Max: Fury Road coming out this year. Here’s hoping the film is as good as the trailers promise.